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kdm, custom script

Asked by ravenpl in X-Windows Window Manager, CentOS, Linux Setup

Tags: kdm, kde, shutdown

I'd like kdm to provide users with button(menu item?) to execute custom(config/theme provided) script.
It has to run the script without user/pass(therefore it cannot be window manager)

Actually the setup and requirement is as follow
I have many think workstations running X and asking main server for X session. The server offers kdm login screen.
What I want, is to enable workstation shutdown from the kdm greeting screen.
I tried to fiddle with shutdown related kdm options, but it looks like it always shutdowns all current kdm sessions(via fifo command), and what's most important it shutdowns the kdm itself(no new logins).
If I tried disabling the all session shutting down, it complain that it cannot do that, and will not execute shutdown at all.

Any ideas?

CentoS 5.3/kde 3.5 here.

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kdm, custom script

Asked by ravenpl in X-Windows Window Manager, CentOS, Linux Setup

Tags: kdm, kde, shutdown

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